Man Wanted for 17 Years Extradited From Lithuania to Kazakhstan

A man wanted for 17 years on charges of homicide dand illegal weapons possession has been extradited from Lithuania to Kazakhstan. He is believed to have been connected to the criminal network of the Russian crime boss known as Ded Khasan, Orda.kz reports.

The suspect was detained in August 2025 while attempting to cross the Lithuanian border under a false identity.

According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, he has now been transferred to Kazakhstan and placed in a pre-trial detention center.

Prosecutors described the original case:

In 2007, the suspect and his accomplice traveled to Almaty to illicitly enrich themselves. Their conflict with other criminals ended in bloodshed. On May 19, 2008, they shot a man in the courtyard of a building, the final shot hitting him in the back of the head. The victim died at the scene.

One of the suspects was arrested shortly after the crime, while the other fled abroad and remained on an international wanted list. He reportedly lived in Europe for years under various assumed names.

The extradited suspect is also a defendant in the homicide case of Russian businessman Musa Shatoev, who was shot dead in central Almaty. The perpetrators had waited for Shatoev in the courtyard of a residential building on Furmanov Street (now Nazarbayev Avenue).

Investigators initially struggled to identify the shooter and only linked him to the case months later, after a violent incident in Qapchagay in which he killed a nightclub patron and wounded several police officers.

Locating the second suspect took nearly two decades.

Security services also determined that those involved in Shatoev’s killing had ties to an organized crime group and may have acted on orders from Ded Khasan (Aslan Usayan).

One suspect stated during questioning:

Investigators later received a visit from a man identifying himself as Khabib, described as a Moscow “thief-in-law,” who reportedly offered a ransom for the suspect’s release.

The motive for this offer remains unclear.

Original Author: Ruslan Loginov